“Earlier this year, I had just wrapped up a really challenging day at work. You know those days where you question everything, feel inadequate, and leave defeated & drained? Yeah, one of those days. I’m talking snotty, ugly-crying, M E S S .

…I headed down the highway and minutes later the truck in front of me…”

I think for most of us, there are specific days or events that we could look back on and mark as pivotal to our life stories. Sometimes those pivotal moments are really beautiful ones, and others are blanketed in hurt.

"So often we go about life keeping the vulnerable seasons hidden. Forgetting that it's okay to admit we're not always okay... But I wonder what would happen if we told the whole story?If we lived our lives transparent and free."

"I listened to dispatch calls of pregnant women who couldn't get out of their neighborhoods and were going into labor. Midwives providing free care to families across the state who are flooded in or evacuated & displaced...

But what can be done? How do you respond to tragedy when you are hundreds of miles away?"

"....It was okay to say, “I need help.” Doing so took some incredible bravery. It’s been said that “Speaking our fears and goals out loud is powerful.” And being vulnerable & real was one of the most freeing gifts I could give myself."

"...What would happen if I wrote from a place of being the heroine in my own story? If my life were the setting, and the lessons I learned along the way were the storyline, and I quit trying to write as if there were an ending..."